Multiple access television

Abstract

A novel process of broadcasting live televised programs, whereby multiple video options are made available to the viewer on existing conventional cable ready receivers and are obtainable by viewer selection.

That which is claimed is: 
     
       1. A process for broadcasting live televised programs comprising: obtaining video signals from a plurality of video cameras, each of said cameras relaying a different selected and predetermined view of a single event or production;   producing an audio signal associated with said event or production;   receiving said video signals and said audio signal in a remote studio;   transmitting for broadcast through a single combining network said audio signal and all said video signals simultaneously to a radiating antenna;   broadcasting the combined signals from said radiating antenna;   receiving said combined and broadcasted signals by a receiving antenna in communication with a cable television distribution system; and   re-transmitting said audio signal and all said video signals on a cable television distribution system where by each of a plurality of subscribers to the cable television distribution system may select any one of the video options made available by a broadcasting network.